Chapter 5
"It's not fair!" yelled Sam angrily later that day. Sam, Tucker and Danny had gone to get something to eat in the hospital cafeteria.
"Catherine is such a weird ghost. I mean, why would she want to kill Emily just because we didn't come to her last spring? And now she's working with Vlad! YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING!" This last statement was directed at Danny, who looked slightly taken aback.
"Sam, I can't do anything, she's too powerful! She'll kill me too, if I try to fight her!" Sam sighed. Then a light bulb went off in her head.
"I know what we can do!" she yelled.
"What?" the two boys asked quickly.
"We can find Isabelle! The two pieces of the necklace will probably counteract Catherine's power on Emily. Kinda like in math, when you add a positive number to its negative counterpart and it makes zero."
Danny smiled.
"Well, I didn't get the math aspect of it...but it's a good plan!" Danny added hastily, for Sam looked like she was about to breathe fire.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Sam pulled Danny and Tucker to their feet, and they headed off to the Ghost Porthole.
They met the Box Ghost on their way to Isabelle's lair. This time he was softly petting a cube shaped box. Cubes he liked even more than boxes, because they were a double square.
"Why," said Sam grumpily after he was out of earshot "do we always meet the Box Ghost every time we...woah."
The woah was kind of a collective woah. The reason for this was laid out in front of them.
The door to Isabelle's lair was thrown open. Isabelle's possessions were strewn around, floating all around them. Worst of all, there was no sign of either Isabelle or her magical necklace.
"This is not good." Sam finally broke the silence. "Not good at all."
"Isabelle is missing!" I pushed myself up with my arms. That part of my body, at least, was still semi-working. My friends nodded solemnly.
"And it didn't look like she went off on a nice little vacation either." Danny added. "It definitely looked like she was taken. By force."
"But who..." I started, then an idea came to me. "Maybe Vlad took her?" Danny shrugged.
"But what would Vlad want with Isabelle?" Sam questioned. We all shrugged. We had no clue, no lead, and I was getting sicker.
"Well I know what we have to do. " Sam broke the silence. "We need to hunt down Isabelle and get the other half of the necklace. Immediately."
"But where do we start?" Danny asked.
"Begin at the beginning..." I said softly, remembering another warning, one from many months ago.
Sam snapped her fingers. "That's it!" she shrieked. "That's it. We have to begin at the beginning, just like we did in the spring. Only now it'll be a different beginning...for a different mystery."
And the beginning for this mystery was Isabelle's ruined lair. Tomorrow was a new day, and we would begin at the beginning once again.
A/N: Wow. 4 chapters today. I really am on a roll. Read and review!